More Dotheads Online

There are more Dorothy Parker web sites going up every month. Since we lost Dorothyparker.com in September, we had to find other sites that reproduce her writing online. See the Dot City Parker Links Page for a site that has short stories, and another that holds more than 35 poems. We also dug up a B&B in North Carolina that has a "Dorothy Parker Room" -- someone please check in and have a roll in the hay in it!

Posted by Kevin Fitzpatrick on Friday, November 26, 1999 at 8:09 AM | Permalink

Four-Times Dose of Dorothy

We went to town and added four more locations to Dot City, so there are even more places to vist:

Depression-Era Apartment, In 1932, Dottie lived here when she wrote some of her most famous stories

Art Deco End, This apartment on East 52nd Street was the last place Dottie lived before going to Los Angeles

Wit's End, where Dottie's pal Aleck Woollcott lived and entertained

The Cort, legendary Broadway theater where Dottie sat through shows as a critic

Have a look at these exciting new places that played a part in Dorothy Parker's life.

Posted by Kevin Fitzpatrick on Saturday, November 20, 1999 at 11:18 PM | Permalink

I'm Waiting for the Man

All hail Lou Reed and his rock 'n' roll heart! Lou is our favorite rocker, and now we find out that the former English major and new Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is a Parker fan too.

This item was in today's New York Post, our favorite tabloid: "The steady decline in literacy is alarming even to Lou Reed. When the rocker mentioned that one of the portraits in Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' "Art World" exhibit resembled Dorothy Parker, a fellow attendee at the Mary Boone Gallery asked who he was talking about. "What's wrong with you?" Reed said. "Don't you people read anymore? How could you not have heard of Dorothy Parker?" ... WOW. We love Page Six for Gossip! For the guy who penned "Heroin", "Sweet Jane" and "Perfect Day" -- among so many other gems -- that is very cool. We suggest you go out and buy Lou's masterpiece "New York" today. Parker and Reed, a classic New York couple.

Posted by Kevin Fitzpatrick on Thursday, November 18, 1999 at 6:48 PM | Permalink

Autograph Checker

There is something about owning an autograph that is special. Just the fact of owning a piece of some scrap signed by someone you admire. In the realm of Dorothy Parker fandom, it appears there are lots of her signatures floating around online auctions these days. All command $200 to $300. But are they real? We now have four samples in the Gallery. Take a look and be a handwriting analyst. Maybe before bidding on that signed first edition of Sunset Gun, this will help as a guide.

Posted by Kevin Fitzpatrick on at 7:45 AM | Permalink

Of TV Movies and Fetishists

The What the Hell Book Shop has additions in the video section. People asked what movie screenplays Dorothy Parker worked on, so look here. There are some changes on the Links Page. See the link to the site for men who really do like girls who wear glasses...

Posted by Kevin Fitzpatrick on Tuesday, November 02, 1999 at 12:52 PM | Permalink